Adding a trailing slash to URL using Apache

Question

I'm working in a directory called testsite and I want all .php extensions to be replaced by a trailing slash. I'm halfway there, in that (for example) entering http://mydomain.com/testsite/about means that http://mydomain.com/testsite/about.php is loaded.

However, I now want the URL to be displayed as ./about/ so that only one version shows up in search engine rankings.

Here's my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /testsite/
RewriteRule ^()$ index.php [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/?.*\..*$) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC]

Also, is it possible to preserve (and hide from display any parameters that I pass)?

All help is much appreciated!

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-19 16:54:46Z

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Try these rules:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule .*[^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.php [NC]

edited Nov 19, 2010 at 16:54

answered Nov 19, 2010 at 13:05

Gumbo

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user114671 Over a year ago

Hi Gumbo. Thanks for this. I've tried this but it seems to add %25 to the end of a url such as ./about ( giving ./about%25 ) and it gets lost in a loop of ./about%25%25%25... when I put ./about/ in the address bar. I think it's almost there but not quite.

user114671 Over a year ago

Hi Gumbo. Thanks for helping. It's getting closer. If I go to ./about it correctly puts ./about/ in as the url but the page shows without loading the CSS?!? If I then click on a link, say ./contact-us/ it goes nuts with ./about/contact-us.php.php.php.php.php !!! It must be nearly right so I'll have a look later today when I have more time. Thanks again.

Gumbo Over a year ago

@Outerbridge Mike: The first issue is probably due to relative URL references that are resolved from the current URL; so resolving ./contact-us/ on the base path /about/ results in /about/contact-us/. Just use absolute paths instead. And the second issue: Well, since a redirect takes only place if appending .php to the current file path references an existing file (although URL and file system path do not need to be the same), you might change that condition and use some other criterion or remove that entire condition.

user114671 Over a year ago

Thanks again Gumbo. I replaced all the relative paths with absolutes and your solution works a treat. Many thanks for taking the time to help me.

David Kuridža · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-19 13:00:14Z

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Try replacing the last rule with:

RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC] [E=ORIGINAL_URL:$1]

answered Nov 19, 2010 at 13:00

David Kuridža

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user114671 Over a year ago

Hi David. Unfortunately I'm still getting the same results as before. What does the E= part do? Thanks Mike

David Kuridža Over a year ago

E or env is an environment variable, check httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html for more details. In example above, original URL is preserved even though a rewrite is made.

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